Melchiorre Murenu (Macomer 1803 – 1854) was a blind Sardinian poet.Melchiorre Murenu, "Tutte le Poesie", Edizioni della Torre, 1990. He is known as the "Homer of Sardinia"Paola Pittalis, Storia della letteratura in Sardegna, Cagliari, 1998, p.84 because (like Homer) he was blind.
At the age of three he became blind from smallpox.
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